The last thing you want to do as a compliance engineer under such circumstances is to appear as something of a "Compliance Cop". This will drive an impenetrable wedge between you and literally anyone in management.
Most probably what James says is correct - the director is looking for either: 1) primarily - ways to cut costs, or 2) secondarily - loopholes. It *might be* good showing someone in this capacity a mountain of standards. But, he more than likely wants to cut to the chase as to *why* you have that mountain of standards. And most likely he'll key into one liners about it being the law. And he'll most likely think something such as, 'okay so it's the law, we all don't obey the speed limit do we?' If he's looking into cost/benefits ratios which he probably is, don't dwell too much on the why we do it, i.e. citing laws verbatum. Dwell on what happens if you don't do it, i.e. penalties, recalls, fines, a European alert system which notifies all of Europe within 3 days about bad product even in countries you don't sell. But most of all - money. It's a common language. And be cool about it. Besides, you're doing HIM a favor by avoiding all that cost and headache. Regards, Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
